…garden. Besides feeding yourself, you can also support the native butterflies, birds and bees that also depend on these foods. What’s great about a forage garden is that it requires…
Starting Your Own Beekeeping Operation
…honey and beeswax production and commercial crop pollination. Honey production depends on the availability of nectar producing plants. Remember to protect your bees from chemicals as much as possible. Find…
Planting a Bee Friendly Garden
…ideal plants for your region. Single blossom plants are easier for bees to access. Such sas petunias, poppies, daisies, hollyhocks, geraniums, and old fashioned roses. Bees have excellent color perception,…
Agri View: Honeybee Update
…crops depend on bees to pollinate those crops. You have to remember now. The bees need the crops just as much as the crops need the bees. It is an…
ARS Scientist Leads $1 Million Funded Consortium to Seek Honey Bee Disease Controls
…scientists to seek new controls for Varroa mites, honey bees’ number one problem. Cook, with the Bee Research Laboratory, a part of ARS’s Beltsville (Maryland) Agricultural Research Center, will be…
UCR Researchers Receive Grant to Improve Pollinator Health
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research award will identify best management practices to protect bees UCR researchers conducting a field study on pollinator health at an almond field in California’s…
Almond Update: Don’t Forget About Bee Water and Removal
…to date to ensure that almond orchards are and remain a safe and healthy place for honey bees. The documents lay out simple, practical steps that almond growers can take…
Legislation Designed to Save Pollinators Introduced in House
Representatives Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts introduced the Saving America’s Pollinators Act. The legislation is designed to protect the health of honey bees and other critical…
Mulch Plants for Your Garden
…want to choose to grow include comfrey (see above)– known as a permaculture champion. It’s a vigorous grower with huge leaves that have medicinal qualities and tiny flowers that bees…
Almond Matters: Almond Bloom Arrives
…bees. “That’s a hard task to request, but its something that should be considered if we’re not seeing any puddles or any open sources of water for bees,” said Doll….
Ag Committee Leaders Praise Bipartisan Budget Act
…by hurricanes, we’ve also improved livestock disaster programs to help producers recover from wildfires and other disasters.” More funds are available under the Emergency Assistance Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised…
Almond Matters: Extending Almond Bloom
…Field Development for Valent USA Pat Clay, “which is going to give the bees a better chance to pollinate those flowers and set fruit.” Field studies found that trees that…
Almond Matters: Orchard Protection Techniques
…is a longtime standby for worm control on many crops, including almonds,” said Lopez. “It’s very effective and at the same time it’s very safe on bees, so you can…
Honeybees Attraction to Pesticides
Cathy Isom has some stinging news about an alarming study that shows honeybees like what’s actually bad for them. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Researchers at University…